On 6/6/06, Doug Van Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have page components that are common across many of my pages. Here
> are a few of them:
>
> == A user specific menu, cached in the session.
> == A shopping cart, cached in the session.
> == A list of recently visited items, cached in the session.
>
> My current approach to making these objects available to a template is
> to have a 'base_dict(request)' function that returns a dictionary
> containing the common things under well known names (e.g., { 'menu':
> menu, 'cart': cart, 'recent_items': recent_items}).
Sounds like the perfect use case for a custom template tag via the
"inclusion tag" helper.
http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/templates_python/#inclusion-tags
Adrian
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